Hi, my name is Keith Jackson, and I live in Rainham, Essex - a suburb to the east of London on the north bank of the river Thames in England, and about 11,650km (7,239 miles) distant from Hawaii.

I work for a Government department located in Westminster, central London, in a policy area that can be intensely busy, demanding and stressful at times.  My aquarium, whilst offering its own challenges, is the antidote to that - providing me with hours of pleasure, relaxation and beauty. 

I first started keeping a marine aquarium in the 1980s but it was only when we moved home in 2000 and I setup a new marine aquarium with both soft and LPS stony corals that I really began to get the stony coral bug...  In 2004 I switched over to the SPS dominated biotope featured on this site, which is a test-run for the much larger biotope aquarium which I hope to start next year.

Fortunately my wife (Kate) and children (Siân and David) have been very tolerant of the occasional floods, blown fuses, flying-fish, noise, smells and the storing of various suspect items in fridge and freezer, that all seem to be an integral part of this hobby.

When I am not looking in the aquarium, or working on it, I am probably reading up on it.  I have built up quite a large library over the last few years and also spend more time than I should on related web forums.

Other interests are music (I have extremely broad tastes), films (nothing intellectual), and reading the harder kinds of sci-fi counter-poised by some of the more humorous fantasy.

If you want to get in touch then you can email me or you can pm me at the UltimateReef or ReefCentral forums - my username on these is 'Jacksok' and my avatar is...

Hope to see you around - happy reefing!

Keith